What's the difference between carried and impost?

Carried


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Carry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
  • (2) Estimations of the degree of incorporation of 14C from the radioactive labeled carbohydrate into the glycerol and fatty acid moieties were carried out.
  • (3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (4) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (5) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (6) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
  • (7) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (8) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (9) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
  • (10) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
  • (11) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
  • (12) The investigations carried out show that the two main serologic types of phage group II are biochemically different.
  • (13) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
  • (14) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
  • (15) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (16) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
  • (17) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
  • (18) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
  • (19) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
  • (20) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.

Impost


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.
  • (n.) The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
  • (2) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
  • (3) US and Canadian oil policies, especially the tar sands schemes in Alberta, would increase the chances of global calamities, the imposters told their audience - but reassured them that the industry could keep "fuel flowing" by transforming the billions of people who died into oil.
  • (4) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
  • (5) The imposter phenomenon describes individuals who at times feel as if they are imposters in their chosen profession.
  • (6) "Facilitated by organised criminals, this typically involved invigilators supplying, even reading out, answers to whole exam rooms or gangs of imposters being allowed to step into the exam candidates' places to sit the test.
  • (7) Mansoor’s name first rose to public prominence in 2010 when western intelligence officials spent tens of thousands of dollars ferrying a “senior commander” to Kabul for peace talks, only to discover that they had been courting an imposter , a grocer pretending to be Mansoor.
  • (8) Manchester United missed out on signing the Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera not because the deal was hijacked by "imposters" , but due to their failure to understand the complexities of Spanish buy-out clauses.
  • (9) There is an overblown budget emergency to justify nasty imposts on low income earners.
  • (10) June 6, 2014 ( Note: There's a possibility that this tweet is actually not from the real Brian Scalabrine, but some Twitter imposter.
  • (11) They are seeing through him.” A spokesman for Ukip said the move had been made, in part, because imposters were using the Ukip logo on racist social media accounts in order to embarrass the party.
  • (12) Sissoko broke on several occasions and it was surprising to see how many of Tottenham’s players faded or made errors to infuriate Pochettino who complained that Spurs were virtual imposters after the interval, impossible to make out from their first-half display.
  • (13) Some famous people make the mistake of shunning social media or using false names, leaving the field open for imposters who can do serious damage.
  • (14) At times he confessed to her that "he felt like an imposter.
  • (15) But, with an election campaign possibly just days away, the statement was also a political document, careful to spare households from any direct imposts and including in its fine print several hundred million dollars in “decisions taken but not yet announced”.
  • (16) Finally, the most distinguishing characteristics were identity delusions, possession delusions, grandiose delusions (other than identities and possessions), and delusions that their families were imposters (Capgras Syndrome) reported by paranoid schizophrenics.
  • (17) Whenever his country had gone through a period of doubt “or nearly disappeared”, he said, France was always able “to drive out the imposters in power and replace them with people who really loved our country.” The audience cheered.
  • (18) However, it now seems the trio were imposters and had nothing to do with United at all.
  • (19) And Palmer himself is often accused of being something of an imposter, claiming grand feats that aren’t quite what they seem or don’t quite eventuate.
  • (20) Baird has acknowledged that the GST is regressive – that is, lower income earners are hit harder because the impost represents a greater share of their disposable income – so says an increase would have to be accompanied by a compensation package for households earning up to $100,000 a year.